We have been taking advantage of a few days as home, as a family, and have been doing all kinds of exciting things such as cleaning and organizing. Basically it comes down to us actually finishing a lot of the projects that were promised, or started, earlier in the summer. As I shared before, Tim has painted a ceiling, and yesterday, while the paint dried at home, we went out to buy a much needed vacuum. We impulse bought a steam cleaner as well. Today's fun and excitement was provided by using that for the first time. It is pretty gross to see the filth you were living in when you buy new cleaning paraphanalia...let's just leave it at that.

Funniest part of the day, though, was the disposal of our old, broken mind you, vacuum. We live on a bend, on a road that leads to several marinas, so we get a fair amount of traffic in the summer months, for sure. We have always been able to have Garage Sales on a moment's notice. Basically we can throw our crap out of the lawn, and people stop by at a steady stream and take it away for us, leaving us with a quick couple hundred cash. The other convenience of living on a seasonally busy road is that anything you just want to get rid of will go away if you just leave it down by the side of the road.

Well, here we were, on a quiet Tuesday morning, with a broken vacuum on our hands. We put it down at 12:15 and took bets for when it would leave the premisis. Bets ranged from 3:15 pm today, all the way to Friday afternoon. Sad to say, or happy I suppose, I won with the 3:15 bet. Someone came and stuffed our crappy vacuum in the back of their vehicle at 1:30 pm!

Got any crap you wanna get rid of, come on up! We'll make a day of it, have a drink, cookout, and watch "One Man's Trash is Another Man's Tresure" play out in my front yard. It is amazing to me each and every time!